Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Marilyn Monroe was rarely cast as anything but the sympathetic or comedic love interest, but based on the evidence in Niagara , she could have had a whole other career as a femme fatale. In fact, her performance here stands alongside …
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Recommended The Film: Depicting the cutthroat, knee-jerk politics involved in the hierarchy of organized crime has long been a staple in the crime-thriller genre, but few have the gusto to focus on the hard psychology of the players involved, though, whether it’s of the high-profile criminals or the undercover cops trapped in their web. That seems like ideal territory for Korean writer/director …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Released just two years after the classic slasher Halloween , John Carpenter’s The Fog never received the kind of respect and devotion tied to Michael Myers’ first outing
Highly Recommended The Incredible Melting Man comes out on Blu-ray in a couple of weeks, and for your $19.97, you get one (1) and only one incredible melting man.
Rent It The Film: As of late, the Gordan Chan once responsible for exhilarating martial-arts spectacles like Fist of Legend has taken a backseat to a more … uh, whimsical perspective from the director, whose gritty intuition in hand-to-hand combat gets lost in flourishes of magic and stiff characterizations.
Highly Recommended THE FILMS Please Note: The images used here are taken from the DVD edition included in the release, and do not directly reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. If you look up page for director Curtis Harrington on IMDB , you’ll be confronted with an extremely checkered Hollywood filmography, one that begins promisingly enough with the personal …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. It took director Troy Duffy ten years to make a sequel to his cult hit The Boondock Saints , which hardly saw a theatrical release in 1999 but made over $50 million in video sales and rentals. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is only the director’s second film; the direct result of the explosive backlash …
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Highly Recommended Note: images do not reflect the contents of The Garden of Words Blu Ray. The Movie: Don’t get me wrong, I love anime, but there’s a very real need for animation that doesn’t hew to the samurai/sci-fi/fantasy/”geeky guy finding himself pursued by hot chick(s)” formulas. That’s where The Garden of Words , a 2013 mini-feature from writer-director Makoto Shinkai, comes in